Great video, Jim! I'm in the process of re-working my backup strategy, as I've been using rsync and cron to automate some of the process. Then I manually send the backups to my truenas storage because it's not running 24/7. I'll be checking into using rclone now that I've seen it here.
Seems like a natural replacement. It also has a number of new features over rsync. I'll be doing a deployment video soon and will walk through some of the main features.
Backup is really strange. For some reason it doesn't work for me because I made some beginner mistakes. Now I just make random dump files from proxmox to my NAS, I simply added it as a drive in proxmox and I take snapshots from there several times a day. I installed PBS as an unprivileged lxc because I couldn't get the SMB marketing to work. I think it's a shame that there is still no decent docker container backup that has a GUI. At the moment I just do a vz dump of the entire machine where docker is installed. First the lxc is stopped and then started again. But I would like to have my containers from docker really well backed up but I really don't have the software for that and no one has made a version with an interface yet. The NAS is Windows because Truenas doesn't give me read write caching and it takes up too much RAM. Unraid is too expensive for me. I have a really good backup program but the compression is still too low for me I have to say. Somehow it's all not quite right.
@@andiM76 I use PBS with my NAS. On my NAS I copy the entire folder that has the .chunk folder as part of it (essentially the entire share). I suspect it's all in the same folder on PBS but I haven't checked.
I use Restic, no it doesn't stop the container (which is another great reason for using it). I will be doing a deep-dive into setup and deployment soon (as well as rClone).
@@Jims-Garage But if it does not stop it, then how can we make sure the backup is done correctly. Mainly if the container uses a database... I think is more secure if the backup application stops the container, backup it's files and then start it again.
@@joelfrojmowicz If it's a db like sqlite it'll just copy the file, if it's a db like mariadb, it should still backup but might be best to stop it first.
@@Jims-Garage not really, better performing a mariabackup automagically in the container, which snapshots correctly Innodb, and backup those snapshots.
@@Jims-Garage no wonder I had not seen anything about it! I run 3 12th gen nucs and ceph over thunderbolt in a ring network. Unfortunately raid not possible with the lack.of connections but there is redundancy in on other ways. Just discovered your channel and hats off to you, your assumed knowledge ceiling is a lot lower than other channels I watch which helps a lot with these awesome projects.
